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Genus

Leptocentrus Stål, 1866

Leptocentrus Stål, 1866: _Leptocentrus bos_. (Otu).
Leptocentrus Stål, 1866: _Leptocentrus bos_. (Otu).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (17)

  • Leptocentrus Stål, 1866c: 386.

    type species by subsequent designation Centrotus bos Signoret, 1858 in Buckton, 1903a: 234

  • Rabduchus Buckton, 1903a: 251.

    type species by original monotypy Rabduchus gnomon Buckton, 1903

  • Rbduchus [sic] Buckton, 1903 (misspelling of Rabduchus Buckton, 1903) in Yuan & Chou, 2002a: 150.
  • Leptorentrus [sic] Stål, 1866 (misspelling of Leptocentrus Stål, 1866) in Zhang, Li & Yuan, 2002: 151.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Stål, C. (1866c) Analecta hemipterologica. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 10, 381–394.
  • Buckton, G.B. (1903a) A monograph of the Membracidae. L. Reeve & Co., Limited. London, pp. 181–296 + pls. XXXIX-LX.
  • Melichar, L. (1903b) Homopteren-Fauna von Ceylon. In Verlag von Felix L. Dames. Berlin. pp. i-iv, 1-248. Verlag von Felix L. Dames. Berlin. iv + 248 pp. + 6 pls.
  • Distant, W.L. (1914m) Homoptera (Membracidae and Jassidae) collected in the Lagos District by W. A. Lamborn. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1913, 515–520.
  • Funkhouser, W.D. (1933a) Entomological investigations on the spike disease of sandal. (3). Membracidae (Homopt.). Indian Forest Records, Entomology, 17(10), 1–10 + pl. 1.
  • Ahmad, I. (1981a) A revision of the checklist of membracoid fauna (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha) of Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and Bangladesh with their relationships. Supplement of the Entomological Society of Karachi, 4(6), 1–34. [1979]
  • Ananthasubramanian, K.S. (1996a) Fauna of India. Homoptera Membracidae. Asian Printers, Calcutta, xviii + 534 pp. + IX pls.
  • Yuan, F. & Chou, I. (2002a) Fauna Sinica. Insecta. Volume 28. Homoptera. Membracoidea: Aetalionidae Membracidae. Science Press, Beijing, China, xix + 590 pp. + IV pls. [in Chinese]
  • Zhang, Y.-Z., Li, P. & Yuan, F. (2002) Homoptera: Membracidae. In Z.-Z. Li & D.-C. Jin (Eds.). Insect fauna from National Nature Reserve of Guizhou Province, I. Insects from Maolan landscape. Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House, Guiyang. pp. 150–152. [in Chinese; X + 615 pp.]

Type

type species by subsequent designation of Leptocentrus Stål, 1866

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Greek: λεπτός (thin, slender, delicate) + κέντρον (sharp point)

Image matrix

No descendants observations found

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1089
Species92088180